Well, we still seem to be having posting problems with the server. According to the cover info, "dad2bkmj" made a post here at 10:38 last night; however, if one looks at the thread, it appears that I am the last one to post. I suspect that flaw is also failing to send notification that "new posts" have been made meaning that the fact that I have answered "Pyrotex" isn't known so I will go ahead and post my next thought experiment.
Ok, let's proceed to the next level of this unique "science fiction story". The fellow with the time travel machine, having entertained us with its strange behavior, brings us some toys common in his culture which are based on that same mechanism. They are called "time balls" and built into every time ball is a time machine identical to the one he had. However, the time machines in the time balls have no adjustment stem. Instead, they contain devices which detect the average position of everything in its environment and uses this to estimate any change in its position in that environment. So long as it is sitting at rest in its environment, the time machine is off and the ball appears to be a normal ball. But, if the ball is moved, the time machine is activated and the ball moves one second into the future for every one foot it has been moved. That is, if its center of mass is moved a thousandth of an inch, the ball will move one twelfth of one thousandth of a second into the future.
Now these "time ball" only work for a limited length of time (a few years) so they had a clock face on them which displayed how long they had actually been in existence (so you would know when they were going to "wear out"). After all, as they had the power to go into the future, it was somewhat difficult to keep track of their actual age.
So we have several of these ball in our laboratory. We can perform various tests with them to see how they act. (We can't open them because to do so without understanding the technology is extremely dangerous (I am told they explode like nuclear bombs if their insides are exposed
). Anyway, all we can do is move them around and read their "actual age". Can anyone here figure out how they appear to act? Why would a kid like to play with one?
Pyrotex, you're pretty good, tell me how they seem to act if you play catch with one.
Have fun – Dick
"The simplest and most necessary truths are the very last to be believed."
by Anonymous
